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Second Mellencamp son surrenders on battery charges

By Staff, Associated Press

Posted:
08/19/2013 03:09:12 PM MDT

Updated:
08/19/2013 03:09:17 PM MDT

Spec Mellencamp, center, leaves the Monroe County Jail after being booked in to and bonded out of jail in Bloomington, Ind., Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. Speck Mellencamp and his brother Hud Mellencamp, 19, sons of rock star John Mellencamp, face felony battery charges stemming from a July incident during which police say they punched and kicked a 19-year-old man they assaulted on his front porch. Ty Smith, son of Indiana University baseball coach Tracy Smith, and an IU football team freshman walk-on, also faces felony battery charges from the same incident. (AP Photo/ by/The Herald-Times, Chris Howell) (CHRIS HOWELL/)

The second of rocker John Mellencamp's sons has surrendered for arrest on charges of punching and kicking a 19-year-old man in southern Indiana.

A Monroe County jail officer says 19-year-old Hud Mellencamp was released on bond after being booked early Monday on the felony battery charges. Eighteen-year-old Speck Mellencamp bonded out of jail on those charges Friday.

Authorities say Speck Mellencamp entered the porch of a man's Bloomington home and punched him in the face July 29, believing that man had hit him earlier that evening. Court documents say the brothers and another 19-year-old man "punched, kicked and stomped" the man who suffered facial injuries.

Court records don't list attorneys for the Mellencamp brothers. John Mellencamp's publicist has declined comment. The singer lives near Bloomington, 50 miles south of Indianapolis.

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